I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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